Video Thumbnails won’t load in Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx
I have currently installed Lucid Lynx in my laptop’s system and this is the first bug I have seen, video thumbnails won’t load. All the thumbnails for images and PDF files are loading.
What I mean about the thumbnails are the screenshot preview of the video, not the generic thumbnail.
So, here are the necessary solutions I have found in the Internet:
- Check Nautilus preference (open any directory) then go to Edit Menu, Preference, and then the Preview Tab. Now, you could modify the settings.
* Video thumbnails should be automatic if you have a default gnome install and your gstreamer supports the codecs of the video.
- Next step would be deleting your cache for thumbnails. You could just point yourself to ~/.thumbnails or /home/username/.thumbnails delete its content, or maybe the directory itself (don’t worry, it would automatically created in the future as long as your file wants to load a thumbnails).
- Last solution I found is checking your codecs. I tried installing mplayer and the ffmpeg
- sudo apt-get install mplayer
- sudo apt-get install ffmpeg
But here’s a package, which i think could help you to play restricted formats:
- sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras
seeing as i prefer to use Dolphin over Nautilus, i thought i’d add to this entry.
first, download “kffmpegthumbnailer” from the repositories using either a program like Synaptic or through Konsole (“sudo apt-get install kffmpegthumbnailer”).
then open Dolphin & go to Settings > Configure Dolphin > General > Previews.
from there, mark the checkbox next to kffmpegthumbnailer & any other file types you would like a thumbnail to appear for. selecting the “Use thumbnails embedded in files” is up to you if you want it selected but i haven’t seen a difference Disabled & just left mine Enabled.
click Apply & OK & your done.
enjoy!